He was invalided out with (as I have always understood it) trench foot or feet, a painful condition caused by prolonged immersion in water or mud, marked by swelling, blistering, and some degree of necrosis. He returned to England at an unspecified date, and was discharged on 13 November 1917, along with twenty others from his regiment, as No longer physically fit for service. He was then twenty-eight, and oddlyI assume mistakenlylisted as a private in the records of discharge
For this event, Mattie has cut the crackers into musical shapes such as eighth notes, sharps, flats, and cellos
The perfect blend of sultry and dark with a hint of sweet and musk
he terminated his relationship with the company after he quit smoking, five years before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1959